HEP Software Foundation Workshop

2 May 2016, 09:00 → 4 May 2016, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Amphiteatre Pierre Leman (LAL)

The HEP Software Foundation had its first formative workshop at SLAC in January 2015. That workshop led to the establishment of HSF activity areas in the topics of greatest community interest identified at the workshop, with an organization following the model of a community-driven "do-ocracy". Since then, these activities have developed and new opportunities present themselves.

The HSF held its second workshop May 2-4 2016 at LAL in Orsay (near Paris, France), with two main elements. The first element, following SLAC, was a plenary gathering with talks and discussion on progress to date and future plans, how to garner greater participation, new initiatives and projects, and guest speakers from the open software community. The second element consisted of focused mini-workshops and hackathons, in areas of current or potential HSF activity that are of broad interest and relevance, with hands-on objectives.

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Meeting notes googledoc

Monday, 2 May

Welcome - Registration

Project Support in HSF

During this session, we'll present what is avaible at HSF to help projects, in partcular new ones, and discuss what could be useful for HSF to do.

Project Support Session googledoc

1 HSF Project Discussion Session

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

HSFWorkshop2016_ProjectSession(1).pdf

12:30 Lunch

2 Introduction

HSF Introduction.pdf

HSF Status

3 HSF Status

Achievements since SLAC workshop

Speaker: Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

HSF Status.pdf

4 Community White Paper: a roadmap for the HSF?

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

20160502-hsf-community-whitepaper.pdf

News from Projects

5 Future Conditions DB

Speaker: Andrea Formica (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

NewConditionsDB-HSF-2016.pdf

6 AIDA2020 WP3

Speaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

AIDA_WP3_gaede v1.pdf

7 DIANA/HEP

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

20160502-DIANA-Intro-for-HSF.pdf

8 Knowledge Base

Speaker: Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

HSF-KB-Wenaus-20160502.pdf

9 WikiToLearn

Speaker: Riccardo Giulio Iaconelli (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

16:15 Coffee Break

Learning from Other Communities

10 Bioconductor: Open software for Bioinformatics

Speaker: Wolfgang Huber (EMBL)

160502-hsf-paris-v04.pdf

11 Netherlands eScience Center

Speaker: Daniela Remenska (NIKHEF (NL))

HSFWorkshop_remenska_final.pdf

HSFWorkshop_remenska_final.pptx

12 Depsy

Speaker: Jason Priem (Impactstory)

Tuesday, 3 May

Machine Learning

Following various recent HEP and ML workshops (for example http://cern.ch/DataScienceLHC2015) , this session focusses on issues around Machine Learning : how to allow HEP physicists to do cutting edge Machine Learning and foster collaboration with Machine Learners ?

Conveners: David Rousseau (LAL-Orsay, FR), Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))

13 Introduction

Speakers: David Rousseau (LAL-Orsay, FR), Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (California Institute of Technology (US))

ML_HSF_May16.pdf

14 Deep Learning Implications for HEP Software & Computing

Speaker: Amir Farbin (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

HSF-DL.pdf

15 Report from openLab ML workshop

Speaker: Maria Girone (CERN)

Workshop_Summary_V1.pdf

16 TMVA, Root-R, Root SciKit-learn

Speaker: Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

TMVA_HSF_workshop.pdf

17 Everware and yandex' rep

Speaker: Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Yandex School of Data Analysis (RU))

ML-tools.pdf

10:50 Coffee Break

18 Experience with Theano/Keras

Speaker: Michela Paganini (Yale University (US))

paganini_HSFworkshop.pdf

19 Open Data

Speaker: Kati Lassila-Perini (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

CERN Open Data Portal

HEPSFMay2016.pdf

20 Open Sim : ACTS, A Common Tracking Software

Speaker: Andreas Salzburger (CERN)

ACTS-HSF-2016-05-03.pdf

21 Interexperiment Machine Learning group and HSF

Speakers: Michele Floris (CERN), Dr Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US)), Steven Randolph Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH)), Tim Head (The University of Manchester)

IML-HSF.pdf

12:45 Lunch

Packaging

Spack Hackathon - the Packaging Working Group identified spack ( https://github.com/LLNL/spack ) as a potential candidate for a HEP-wide build and packaging solution. During this session we will have a closer look at features important or unique to HEP. To see whether spack indeed fullfils all requirements of our community.

22 Introduction

Speaker: Dr Patrick Gartung (Fermilab (US))

HSF-spack-presentation.pdf

RAMP: Machine Learning Hackathon on Anomaly Detection

Suppose you have two datasets which are supposed to be identical. For example MC production v1, MC production v2; data of yesterday, data of today. How to detect differences ? This is done typically by comparing rates, or manually defined histograms. How to do this in an automatized, Machine Learning way ? The objective will be to detect differences between two datasets, identical except for introduced manipulations. The RAMP platform allows participants to collaborate to achieve this goal.

To ease organisation, please register specifically for this session on that indico page .
Participants will use their laptop, where Anaconda should be installed, and need to register to the RAMP site.

Please check detailed instructions on the attached README file, preferably before the workshop. All inquiries concerning the RAMP should be sent to hsf2016.ml.ramp@gmail.com.

This session will be in parallel with other sessions.

README.txt

23 Challenges and beyond, RAMP (ML oriented hackathon platform)

Speaker: Balázs Kégl (Linear Accelerator Laboratory)

slidesEIDI1603.pdf

24 Codalab, a challenge platform on MS Azure

Speaker: Isabelle Guyon

CODALAB

Codalab_tutorial_.pdf

Codalab_tutorial_.pptx

25 Anomaly Detection : setting the stage

tr160503_anomaly_HSFRAMP.pptx.pdf

26 Anomaly Detection : hands on

15:30 Coffee Break

Geant4 Technical Forum

G4 technical forum at Orsay will be 90 minutes, 45 minutes of introductory presentations by Geant4 developers on recent new features and near future deliverables, followed by 45 minutes of users’ presentations on their status/issues/requirements. This technical forum meeting is open to anybody including HSF members who have nothing to do with Geant4, to see as a model case how a software project would interact with its user community. We expect user participation would not be limited to HEP but also from nuclear physics, space and medical applications, material science, and if we are lucky from security.

Agenda and connection details for the G4 Technical Forum are in a separate Indico page.

Convener: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

20:00 Social Dinner

Restaurant La Baleine - 47 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris

Wednesday, 4 May

Software Performance

Conveners: Markus Schulz (CERN), Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

SW Performance session plan

27 ALICE

Speaker: David Rohr (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

2016-05-04 HSF Workshop.pdf

28 ATLAS

Speaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))

atlas-software-performance.pdf

29 CMS

Speaker: David Lange (Princeton University (US))

hsf_lange_May2016.pdf

hsf_lange_May2016.pptx

30 Astro

Speaker: Mr Iffrig Olivier (CEA/Irfu/AIM)

iffrig_astro.pdf

31 Root

Speaker: Pere Mato Vila (CERN)

ROOT-HSF-WS-20160503.pdf

32 Geant

Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)

GeantV_HSF_May2016_v2.1.pdf

33 Art/LArSoft

Speakers: Jim Kowalkowski (Fermilab), Marc Paterno (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Marc Paterno (Fermilab)

HCF-performance-lessions-learned.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

34 Panel discussion

Mail goal is to organize ourselves around activity areas with proto-working groups in these activity areas, with an early objective for these working groups to organize sessions at a follow-on dedicated (and more hands-on than this session can be) software concurrency/performance workshop in a few months.

10QuestionsHSF.pdf

DiscussionTopicsHSF.pdf

SummaryPanel.pdf

SummaryPanel.pptx

12:30 Lunch

HSF Next Steps

Notes for discussion

35 New Initiatives

Follow-up on workshop discussions/plans, community roadmap, SW&C journal...

HSF_Legal_FoundationV2.pdf

HSF_workshop_Legal.pdf

Ideas for a journal - Springer

When Authorship Isn't Enough

36 Community Roadmap

Discuss possibility and contents of a community roadmap reflecting our computing challenges and that could be used as a reference by projects and in discussion with Funding Agencies

20160504-hsf-community-whitepaper.pdf

37 Wrap-Up